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Between 2011 and 2020, more than 140 million girls will become child brides, according to United Nations Population Fund. Girls who are married young are more vulnerable to intimate partner violence, sexual abuse & HIV.

Infant mortality rate (IMR) refers to deaths of young children, typically those less than one year of age. It is measured by the number of deaths of children under one year of age per 1000 live births.

As per the stats from Ministry of Helath and Family Welfare India witnesses almost a surge of more than one thousand breast cancer cases since past three years. Breast cancer is becoming one of the leading causes of death after cervical cancer.

Data from National Sample Survey, 2014, point to a steady increase in the cost of health care and WHO estimates out-of-pocket spending as a percentage of total health spending to be 62.42 per cent in India in 2014.

Hepatitis is a serious global health problem and viral hepatitis is one of the leading killers across the globe, with a death toll that matches Aids or tuberculosis as per the medical journal, Lancet. A

Burden of mental illness will increase more rapidly in India than in China over the next 10 years says Lancet report. More than six per cent of the total population is suffering from mental disorder said India’s Union minister of health in 2015.

Mission Indradhanush aims to immunise all children against seven vaccine preventable diseases. Under this, the ministry identified 201 high-focus districts which account for nearly 50% of all unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children in the country.

The demand for mental health services is expanding. The burden of mental illness will increase more rapidly in India than in China over the next 10 years and the two countries account for one third of the global burden of mental illnesses says a Lancet study.

According to WHO, there are 45 million blind persons in the world, of whom 12 million are in India. Also, India has 3.5 million people with corneal blindness and unfortunately, the corneal blind population of India is the largest in the world.

There are no Mobile Medical Units in eight states of India where the requirenet of mobile medical facilities is quite high. Mobile Medical Units are supposed to provide outreach medical services in rural and remote areas